Music at Midday downtown

National City Christian Church presents Music at Midday most Fridays from 12:15-1 pm.  The church is at 5 Thomas Circle NW in DC.  Donations are gratefully accepted. Detailed information at www.nationalcitycc.org or contact Rev. Dr. J. Michael McMahon at [email protected].

March 21: Taiwanese pianist Lin Ching-Yi (Chevy Chase, MD) performs works of Domenico Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, and Maurice Ravel.

March 28: New York City organist James D. Wetzel performs music of European composers Johann Jakob Froberger, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Felix Mendelssohn.

April 4: Organist James D. Hicks (Califon, NJ) perform “Nordic Journey –- Music from the North,” a recital filled with short works, many of them in a lighter, rather entertaining mode. The program will include music by Peeter Süda, Páll Isolfsson, Aaron David Miller, Andreas Wilscher, Mons Leidvin Takle, and Oscar Peterson.
 
April 11: Organist Christoph Hintermüller (Austin, TX) performs colorful works, including music by Charles-Marie Widor, Howard Shore, and Pietro A. Yon.
 
April 18: No recital (Good Friday)
 
April 25: Spanish organist Loreto Aramendi (San Sebastian, Basque Country), shown at right, plays music by Karen Tanaka, Louis Vierne, Gabriel Fauré, and Olivier Messiaen.

Time to enroll in Church Music Institute 

The Church Music Institute at Shenandoah University has announced the lineup for June 15-10 and 22-27. Check it out at www.su.edu/cmi.
The institute goes back many decades. Hundreds of church musicians from a wide variety of denominations have participated in these summer sessions. Teachers have included SU faculty plus outstanding guest clinicians. CMI is back in its full-two-week format, and credits can once again be earned toward a Church Music Certificate at either the graduate or undergraduate level.
This year’s institute celebrates the past, present and future of congregational song, as well as other church music topics and features seven different specials as clinicians.

Organ events

Sunday, May 4, 5 pm: Christ Church, Alexandria choir and instrumentalists present Robert Ray's Gospel Mass. 118 N. Washington St. www.ccalex.org

​Sunday, May 11, 4 pm: Laura Blevins Douglass and Melvin Goodwyn (duo) play a recital at the Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy St. NE.

Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18: Renowned performer and pedagogue William Porter (professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music) offers a masterclass the morning of May 17 and presents an organ recital at 4 pm May 18 at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 6800 Columbia Pike, Annandale. Email Adam Detzner at [email protected] if you are interested in playing for the class, and include the piece or pieces you would be interested in presenting. 

Tuesday, May 27, 12:10 pm: Organist Michał Szostak from Poland presents Bruhns’ Prelude and Fugue in E Minor (the Great), J.S. Bach's Air (on G string) from Orchestral Suite in D Major, Beethoven Symphony in C Minor, and more. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.

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